Sex Position of the Month: Perfecting the Art of Self-Pleasure

Perfecting the Art of Self-Pleasure

You don’t need a partner to enjoy sex! Masturbation is one of the safest ways to enjoy the benefits of sexual activity. Masturbation even has physical, mental, and sexual health benefits that can help make you an overall healthier person. Lala’s favorite reasons to engage in self-pleasure are mood improvement, stress reduction, an increase in sex drive, and most importantly, it helps you understand your body and desires. Due to the stigma of guilt, shame, and lack of education around masturbation, many individuals, especially vagina and vulva owners, shun this innate behavior. Also, many people don’t know where to start regarding the art of self-pleasure. Therefore, Lala will give you some tips and tricks for vagina and vulva owners to help perfect the Art of Self-Pleasure by shedding light on different positions you use while masturbating.

Back-to-Basics Masturbation Pose

Missionary Masturbation Position

The Back-to-Basics masturbation pose is a standard way many vagina and vulva owners masturbate. This masturbation pose is a great go-to position for beginners. The Back-to-Basics masturbation pose places the individual on their back in the exact positioning as missionary. This position is a great way to start for those trying to understand and explore their body and become more comfortable with touching themselves.

How To Best Perform This Position:

First, you should lay on your back and begin your masturbation session with a body scan. Begin with taking a few deep breaths and setting the mood like meditation. Set the mood with audio eroticism, a sexy playlist, or female-friendly ethical pornography. Once you’re in the proper headspace, position your legs in the butterfly position, spread in the air with your knees bent or with your feet planted on the surface with your knees open. When in the back-to-basics masturbation pose, experiment with different leg positions that are most comfortable for your pelvic muscles and the best position to clench down during orgasm.

Tips To Make It Most Enjoyable:

When most individuals think about masturbation instantly, they want to put their hands between their thighs and go straight for the vaginal canal. However, the Back-to-Basics masturbation pose is one of the best positions to explore all thirty-one of your erogenous zones. Spend time learning and understanding what touches provide you with stimulation above the belt. Then, once you’re on edge, begin exploring stimulating touches on your vulva, vagina, labia, and clitoris. Using both hands is a great way to make this masturbation pose the most pleasurable. Play with yourself between your thighs while touching your nipples or neck to help you reach orgasm or experience the ultimate sexual pleasure.

Doggy-Style Masturbation Pose

Doggy Style Masturbation Position

When everyone thinks about doggy-style sex, they think about deep penetrative rough sex. But doggy style can be an extremely stimulating position during masturbation. The doggy-style masturbation pose is the best solo play position for those who enjoy or want to explore anal play.

How To Best Perform This Position:

The best way to perform the doggy-style masturbation position is on a flat, comfortable surface. Position your body on all fours. You’ll want to be on your hands and knees or prop your head up on a pillow, spread your thighs wide, and lean your body down on your shoulders. While in this position, explore your vulva and vagina until you reach orgasm. This masturbation pose is best for those with knowledge and understanding of their genitalia and those with experience stimulating themselves to orgasm.  

Tips To Make It Most Enjoyable:

To best enjoy solo play in the doggy-style masturbation pose, spread your knees wide and use one hand to stimulate your clitoris. You can stroke your clitoris with a circular motion or a light tap and change the speed and directions to see what brings you the most pleasure and helps you reach climax. Also, switch up your touch throughout solo play by stimulating your clitoris, then using two fingers to penetrate your vaginal canal and massage your G-spot. Also, if you’re into anal play, wash your hands before switching up between the two holes, use lubrication, and stimulate your anus. Never move your hand back and forth between the two openings without washing them because it can lead to infection.

The Cowgirl Grind Masturbation Pose

The Cowgirl Masturbation Position

Did you enjoy dry humping during your childhood? The Cowgirl Grind masturbation pose is the most active position for solo play. The Cowgirl Grind masturbation pose isn’t just good cardio during partner play and a great workout during self-pleasure sessions. Dry humping in the cowgirl position is a phenomenal way to stimulate the clitoris and labia. So, if you’re an individual who reaches their best climax through clitoral stimulation or loves a good dry humping session, this is the perfect masturbation pose for you.

 How To Best Perform This Position:

The best way to do a little solo bump and grind is to straddle a pillow, rolled-up blanket, or a bolster or whirl pillow. Then, you’ll want to grind your pelvis back and forth or up and down on the inanimate object that provides you with the most pleasure. Don’t be afraid to experiment with the pressure, speed, and positioning, focusing on reaching the ultimate climax.

 Tips To Make It Most Enjoyable:

To kick up the pleasure during your masturbation session, focus on ensuring your clitoral hood is fully exposed and getting as much clitoral stimulation as you grind into the inanimate object. Once you correct the positioning of your labia and clitoris to provide you with pleasure, then be sure to stroke your chests or stimulate other erogenous zones to make the solo play session the most enjoyable. Spice it up and put on a show for yourself by masturbating in the Cowgirl Grind pose in front of a mirror.

Deep Dildo Squat Masturbation Pose

Squatting Masturbation Position

The Deep Dildo Squat masturbation pose is for the vagina and vulva owners that love deep penetration. This is one of the more challenging and athletic masturbation poses. The Deep Dildo Squat masturbation pose is for those with strong leg muscles which won’t tire quickly from rigorous sexual activity. Sex experts swear by this position for those searching for the Big “O” or orgasm. Squatting during masturbation opens the vaginal canal wide and activates the muscles needed to reach an earthshattering climax from vaginal penetration. This is the best position for those that get a kick out of bouncing up and down during sexual activity and enjoy an excellent suction-cup dildo during solo sexy time.

How To Best Perform This Position:

The best way to perform this masturbation pose is to use a lot of lubrication on your suction-cup dildo to ensure you have enough traction. Get into a low squat position, sit on the balls of your feet, and slowly lower yourself onto the dildo. Then, begin moving up and down on the sex toy to reach orgasm.

Tips To Make It Most Enjoyable:

To make the Deep Dildo Squat masturbation pose most enjoyable, be sure you do it on a sturdy flat surface, like on a floor, and place a towel down to control the mess and a pillow or blanket to protect your knees. While actively in this masturbation pose, play with your clitoris for more stimulation to help have a stronger, more intense orgasm and heighten your pleasure during solo play. Also, try out different lubricants like those with cooling or heating sensations to help change the stimulation. Play with the different speeds and directions while thrusting onto the sex toy.

The Bathtub Rub & Spray Masturbation Pose

Showerhead Masturbation Position

If you need privacy, enjoy shower sex, or just want to switch it up, then the Bathtub Rub and Spray masturbation pose. There are great sexual benefits to pleasuring yourself in the bath or shower. The warm water and steam can help increase your blood flow making you more arouse and sensitive to touch. A good showerhead is the sex toy you never knew you needed until you masturbate in the bath. A detachable showerhead is a great way to heighten your orgasm by directing water flow towards your clitoris for intense and heightened stimulation.

How To Best Perform This Position:

The best way to masturbate in the shower is by hiking your leg up on the side of the bathtub, sitting down on the side of the bathtub, or laying down on the shower stall floor. Next, take the detachable showerhead and place it directly onto your clitoris. Be sure to play with the different showerhead pressure settings and the angle that gives you the most pleasure.

Tips To Make It Most Enjoyable:

To make this the most enjoyable experience, ensure that the water isn’t too hot and that you start on the lightest showerhead pressure so that it doesn’t become painful. Stroke your body with the showerhead by running it on various erogenous zones all over your body. While holding the showerhead to your clitoris, don’t shy away from using your fingers to stimulate your G-spot, labia, and vulva. Hold the showerhead to your nipples while switching up strokes between your vaginal canal and clitoris for the ultimate sexual pleasure.

Sex doesn’t ever have to be boring so make sure it’s always enjoyable! All It takes is simple modifications, tricks, and tips to keep the sex hot! Subscribe to Lala’s Bedtime Tales Newsletter and follow @LalasBedtimeTales on social media for sex tips and tricks to spice up your sex life! Also, check out Lala's Bedtime Tales Podcast and Lala's Oh So Exclusive Patreon account for even more content!

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Lala founded Lala's Bedtime Tales, a sexual wellness and liberation brand. She is a love, sex, & relationship coach and sexual health educator, audio erotica podcast host, and an erotica writer. Lala started Lala's Bedtime Tales to create a safe and judgment-free space for individuals to learn about sexual health and how to feel sexually empowered in and out of the bedroom. Lala's Bedtime Tales is a sexual wellness digital platform that inspires you to take control and ownership of your sexy by mixing education with entertainment. Through Lala's Bedtime Tales, she offers erotica and romance literature, sexual health and wellness education from licensed medical professionals, and healthy relationships & intimacy advice from sexuality experts. Lala's mission is to destigmatize women's sexuality as a dirty thing and encourage and educate women on ways to enjoy their sexual pleasure and feel confident and sexy in their sexuality. Lala firmly believes that sexual health education is a human right. Everyone deserves knowledge about sexual wellness, consent, and pleasure because sex should never be mentally or physically painful but a fun, beautiful, and intimate act.

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